Jenna Tantillo
E-Portfolio
B.A. IN SPANISH & GLOBAL STUDIES
MINORS IN GEOGRAPHY & LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Professional Goals/Resume
• Relevant Coursework
• Cross-Cultural Experience
• Service Internship
• Capstone Reserach
PROFESSIONAL GOALS/RESUME
• Given my emphasis and interest in Latin America I plan to
pursue a career helping marginalized groups in this region or in
teaching American students about the cultures, geographies,
and languages of Latin America. I plan to begin working
towards these career objectives by participating in the Peace
Corps followed by graduate studies in Global Studies or
Geography.
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
• Global Studies
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Intro to Global Studies
Intro. to Cultural Anthropology
History of the Modern World
Democracy, Capitalism, Socialism
Liberation Ecologies: Globalization, the Environment and Social Movements
Serving the Global Community
World Relgigions
Ethnic Literature
Sociology of Religion
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Intro to Spanish Linguistics
Advanced Spanish
Superior Spanish
Senior Seminar in Linguistics
Peer Language Learning Facilitation
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L.A. Culture and Environment
Chilean Culture
Mexico: History and Culture
L.A. Contemporary Cinema
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World Regional Geography
Global Environmental Systems
Social Geography
Geopolitics
• Spanish
• Cultures of Latin America
• Geography
CROSS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
• As a sophomore, I spent Spring 2010 circumnavigating the globe on Semester
at Sea. In this Global Studies focused program I visited nine countries in Asia,
Africa, and South America by ship and received a semester worth of units
toward my degrees. It was exciting to visit this many locations in such a sort
period of time as it allowed for me to make critical comparisons of the
different locations.
• My fourth year of study was spent in Santiago, Chile where I lived for thirteen
months. My courses were all in Spanish at a local university which allowed me
to practice my language skills while earning credit towards my degrees.
During our summer vacation I spent three months traveling around Chile, Peru,
and Bolivia where I experienced many different cultures and geographies
while conversing entirely in Spanish.
SERVICE INTERNSHIP
• During my second semester in Santiago, Chile I attained an
internship at a local community garden, Huerto Urbano
Yungay. At the garden I had much interaction with members
of the indigenous community while learning about urban
farming. Serving the local community was a great way to give
back to the city that had offered me so much all year.
While studying in Santiago, Chile I chose to complete my service internship at
Huerto Urbano Yungay, a community garden providing access to fresh produce and
urban cultivation education for community members. This garden was started just
a couple years ago by Agronomy majors at my host university who sought to put
their education to practical use sharing it with those who cannot afford to attend
college. I was nervous to begin my internship as I did not have previous experience
at regular volunteer work nor any previous gardening knowledge but this
internship altered my mental paradigms for the better.
The founders’ goal in creating Huerto Urbano Yungay was to provide an
alternative to the paradigm of food as a product to be purchased from a store. This
group intends to educate the community about urban cultivation as a counter to
the corporate commodity chains, which maintain a heavy presence in a
economically liberalized, post-Pinochet Chile. Barrio Yungay is an ideal place for
this type of establishment as one of the older, most culturally maintained
neighborhoods in Santiago while also home to many low-income residents who
have much to gain from this conscious education. Urban cultivation is also
promoted as a tool to improve personal and environmental health, which aligns
with the ideals of the local indigenous group from which many impoverished
Chileans are decedents. This is inspiring to marginalized individuals and entire
communities who have been seemingly forgotten by their government to further
CAPSTONE RESEARCH
• Abstract: In advertisements Fair Trade products are portrayed as coming
directly from happy, hardworking indigenous hands backed by a
breathtaking landscape that the consumer has just helped save; this study
will reveal the story behind the label. This paper addresses the extent to
which the Fair Trade movement is altering the neoliberal paradigm or
working as a facet within it. The sustainability of Fair Trade will be examined
through the case of the UCIRI in Mexico and its European importers,
allowing a critical assessment of Mexico’s status as a periphery country. An
evaluation of the UCIRI as a civil society will measure the social sustainability
of Fair Trade to its producers while gauging the environmental sustainability
through ideals presented by Via Campesina. Wallerstein’s World Systems
Analysis will be referenced to address the global factors instigating the start
of the Fair Trade movement in Mexico and what it means for them today.
This study will reveal that although the Fair Trade movement stemmed from
noble intentions and continues to benefit some farmers, it still exists within
the free market where actors operate solely for increased profit and many
of the most marginalized remain.
Fair Trade: Progressing or Reassessing the Neoliberal Paradigm
The Case of the UCIRI
by:
Colton Fagundes, Jenna Tantillo, and Patty Apple
Source: Fridell, Gavin. Fair Trade Coffee: the Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven
Social Justice, 213. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2007.
Sonoma State University
Global Studies Senior Seminar
April 29, 2013